Sharks

“Was Diana Nyad really at risk of being bitten by a shark during her swim? To answer that question, let’s consider a series of related questions.” Aah, I have been waiting for this! And a fun, unrelated fact from Nyad’s Wikipedia page…

The Daily Mail brings you the stories that matter: orange-y English people behaving poorly in Ibiza, and sightings of individual great white sharks twenty-five hundred miles away*.

Not only are sharks swimming down the street (well, no, they’re not actually), they’re also approaching the beach, tantalizing swimmers with their gigantic fins, and then disappearing into the sunset.

Daily Telegraph headline, July 31st: Richard Branson is ‘devoured by a whale shark’

A scuba diver was swimming off the coast of Maine doing an environmental assessment when he, or rather his camera, was attacked by a shark. The diver would like you to know, “If you watch the video, you can hear me screaming underwater.” Nice!